Six thousand prisoners have escaped from a maximum-security prison near Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. According to the ...

Some 15,800 Christian convicts nationwide had their sentences reduced during Christmas, with 116 of them enjoying an early ...

Years before Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Malcolm Koonce was born, his father spent time in prison for an armed robbery ...

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

Dorthy Moxley, the mother who fought for decades to bring her teenage daughter’s killer to justice in a roller-coaster ...

Two men from Pensacola and one from Niceville were cumulatively sentenced to just under six years in prison for helping storm ...

California law enforcement and business owners alike are cautiously optimistic that the overwhelming support for Prop 36 will ...

The hunt for the former head of the military judiciary under long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad, Mohammed Kanjou al-Hassan, ...

"Anything that makes people feel insecure in their ability to take care of their families...will impact shoplifting," one expert told Newsweek.

An argument in the Warren County Prison escalated into a violent incident that resulted in a felony charge for a man already sentenced to serve time in state prison. As the Times Observer reporter ...

The shooting at Oxford High School killed Tate Myre, 16; Justin Shilling, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and injured seven others.

I can remember clearly the rush of joy I felt when I heard the almost unbelievable news that the last three members of the ...